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The Senator representing Lagos West, Olamilekan Adeola, has been dragged to court over his decision to seek reelection to the Senate through Ogun West. Adeola, who has been representing Lagos at the National Assembly since 11 years ago, is seeking ...

Nepalese officials on Tuesday confirmed that all the 22 people on board the plane that crashed on May 29 were killed after rescuers found and recovered the last body from the wreckage. The spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of ...

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has paid a visit to Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, at his Abuja home. This is coming after Governor Wike lost the primary election to Abubakar ...

  Peter Obi has emerged as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. Peter Obi joined the Labour Party after resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He clinched the ticket after his rival, Pat Utomi stepped down for him. ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s name is misisng on the list of presidential aspirants expected to be screened by the All Progressives Congress (APC). Meanwhile, a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State last Friday declared that Jonathan is eligible ...

Isoko youths in Delta state and ex-Niger Delta agitators have protested against what they described as “Satanic and illegal” demolition of a multi-million naira mansion belonging to Prince Joseph Kpokpogri, estranged lover of controversial Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, by the ...

A former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has been remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission pending the determination of his bail application. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja gave the remand ...

Folake Abiola, an Accountant with one of Nigeria’s leading Communication Company, Global Communications Ltd (GLO), committed suicide last night by ingesting Sniper. She is known to be a kind person, who is very good at discharging her duties and quite ...

  Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano, wife of the former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, has won the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) ticket for Anambra North Senatorial zone. Ebelechukwu, popularly called Osodieme, defeated her husband’s former Chief of Staff, ...

    The Kano State Executive Council has approved the renaming of Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil. The state’s Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba, who revealed this in a statement on Saturday, said the decision followed ...

  Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has again emerged as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Abubakar defeated 12 other candidates in a keenly contested presidential primary held at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja on Saturday. ...

  A man in Garissa, Kenya is currently nursing serious injuries after he set himself on fire following misguided advice from a nurse friend. According to a statement by the National Police Service (NPS), the man identified as Mohamed Haret, ...

Former Governor of Edo and ex-national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has clinched his party’s Edo North Senatorial ticket ahead of the 2023 general elections. Mr Oshiomhole scored 309 votes to pick the APC ticket while ...

The Rivers State Police Command has said a total of 31 persons died during a stampede at the venue of an outreach programme put together by a new generation church in Port Harcourt on Saturday morning. The church, known as ...

  Gunmen suspected to be bandits reportedly stormed Jere community in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killed a husband and kidnapped his pregnant wife as well as three others. The abducted members of the community are said to ...

Babajide Obanikoro on Friday lost his bid for a second term to represent Eti-Osa 1 Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives under the All Progressives Congress. Obanikoro, son of a former minister of state for defence Musiliu Obanikoro, lost ...

Sixteen-year-old scavenger, Lawali Abubakar, has said that he was promised N5,000 and given a part payment of N1,500 to exhume a corpse from a cemetery in Chachanga, Niger State and supply its fingers. Lawali said he went to the cemetery ...

The All Progressives Congress has postponed its special convention for presidential primary for the 2023 general elections from May 29 to June 6. National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, announced this in a statement hours after the Independent ...

An Akwa Ibom High Court on Friday sentenced one Nkereuwem Emah to death by hanging for killing his pregnant wife. Emah, 52, from Mbiabam in Ibiono Ibom local government area of the state was said to have butchered his wife ...

Teslim Folarin has emerged the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Oyo State. Mr Folarin emerged candidate after polling 954 votes in the primaries held at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium on Thursday in Ibadan. Folarin, a former Senate leader, ...

Three staff of Dangote cement company have been killed in a ghastly motor accident in Kogi State. The incident occurred on Thursday at about 5:45pm around Zariagi Obajana road in Kogi State. The deceased victims according to a source from ...

Lai Mohammed’s son, Folajimi has lost the ticket to represent Ikeja State Constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly. The Minister’s son who is representing the constituency for the second time, failed to secure his re-election ticket in ...

  One person has been confirmed dead in a multiple accident which occurred today at the popular Otedola Bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The accident involved a Tanker loaded with 45,000 litres of premium motor spirit (pms) and four vehicles. ...

  Female TV presenters in Afghanistan have appeared on air with their faces covered after the Taliban ordered them to do so or face punishment. Some broadcasters had refused to follow the new rules when they came into force yesterday, ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday refused to admit former Imo State Governor, Anayo Rochas Okorocha to bail pending the determination of a suit he instituted against the Federal Government. Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo declined to compel the ...